Made by: Cole Renckly, Nolan Murdock, Milani Kimble, and Nyah Duplessis
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The three mound building groups are:
  • The Adena People
  • The Hopewell People
  • The Mississippian People

The mound builders ate sunflowers, fish, corn, squash, pumpkins, pecans, and black berries.

The mound builders used spears to hunt and then used every part of the preys body so they know they have killed it for no such reason other than for fun.

They traded rare items such as art to grow wealthier.

Historians are not sure what happened to the mound builders.

Our Research: The mound builders Lived mostly in Mississippi and Ohio. People Don"t 100% know what happened to the mound builders except what they think what happened is that because of the weather droping it became harder to hunt and soon ran out of all of there food.
The mound builders grew wealthy from trading services, art, and other things that brought them wealth. This process is called bartering and it made some of the mound builders rich. The mound builders art is very interesting they made a hand, a bird, and even some really cool decorated pots! they built mounds for worshiping their gods, burial sites, and for other religious reasons.


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Mound builders quiz (don't look up and cheat!)

Questions

1. How did the mound builders become rich?

2. What do people think happened to the mound builders?

3. Why did the Mound Builders build mounds?

4. Name the three mound builder groups.

5. Where did the mound builders mostly live?

6. Name 7 things the mound builders ate.

Answers

1. They bacame rich by trading art, services, and other things.

2. They think they died because of weather drops that made it harder to hunt.

3. For burial sites, to worship thier gods, and for other religous purposes.

4. Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian.

5. The mound builders mostly lived in Ohio and Mississippi.

6. They ate corn, squash, pumpkins, sunflowers, pecans, blackberries and fish


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